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Happy New Year!Albuquerque Bonsai Club is proud to welcome its members to the new year. Since 1975 the club has supported local bonsai practitioners with open arms and a willingness to share. The website extends this support even further by providing an accessible 24 hour online up to date resource. At your fingertips you will find current weather forecasts, bonsai [...]
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About The Albuquerque Bonsai Club
The Albuquerque Bonsai Club began in January 1975. By 1979, it had grown, and the first Bonsai master, Ben Oki, was invited to conduct a bonsai workshop. Since then, other Bonsai masters have presented workshops in Bonsai culture in Albuquerque. Other Masters, including John Naka, Chase Rosade, Jim Barrett, Hal Sasake, Toshio Subaromaru, Mel Ikeda, Ray Nagatoshi,and Ernie Kuo have visited Albuquerque and enriched the club members knowledge of Bonsai.
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January marks the start of a new year for the Club as well as the calendar. Annual dues are $24. Please get yours paid so you will appear in the directory and be included in the Club's activities, meetings, workshops and events. Read More...
In Focus
Bonsai In New Mexico - By Roger CaseI first became interested in bonsai in 1969 after attending the Japanese Obon Festival in Monterey, California, where there was a display of what I believed to be a wonderful group of bonsai. I was hooked, and followed up with a visit to a local bonsai nursery. But this was before I [...]
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2010 John Y. Naka AwardEntries for the American Bonsai Society award to a North American bonsai artist for 2010 must be submitted by March 1, 2010. Go to www.absbonsai.org/NakaAward.html. for contest information.
There is no doubt that members of this Club should be competing for this award.
Monthly Care
February - A light at the end? Maybe…The last month of the calendar winter. The weather is similar to January. The nights will still be below freezing. Toward the end of the month, there are some warm, balmy, spring days. Close the cold frame or the trees get too warm and start budding. The average high for the month is 52 degrees; [...]
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